1. “What you would say if you could tell your younger self just one thing.” – Brianna Wiest
2. “You spend more time trying to impress people who don’t like you than you spend with people who love you for who you are.” – Brianna Wiest
3. “You start to let go on the day you take one step toward building a new life and then let yourself lie in bed and stare at the ceiling and cry for as many hours as you need.” – Brianna Wiest
4. “Socially intelligent people know that not everybody wants to communicate, learn, grow or connect — and so they do not try to force them.” – Brianna Wiest
5. “Start quantifying your days by how many healthy, positive things you accomplished, and you will see how quickly you begin to make progress.” – Brianna Wiest
6. “This is what’s going on when people push others away or give up on their big dreams the moment something challenging comes up. When we are so scared that we are going to lose something, we tend to push it away from ourselves first as a means of self-preservation.” – Brianna Wiest
7. “Happiness is not a rush of positive emotion elicited by random events that affirm the way you think something should go. Not sustainable happiness, anyway. The real stuff is the product of an intentional, mindful, daily practice, and it begins with choosing to commit to it.” – Brianna Wiest
8. “Happiness is not only how we can astound our senses, but also the peace of mind that comes from knowing we are becoming who we want and need to be.” – Brianna Wiest
9. “The path to a greater life is not “suffering until you achieve something,” but letting bits and pieces of joy and gratitude and meaning and purpose gradually build, bit by bit.” – Brianna Wiest
10. “Many people say that you have to love yourself first before you can love others, but really, if you learn to love others, you will learn to love yourself.” – Brianna Wiest
11. “You are allowed to have everything you want.” – Brianna Wiest
12. “Someone else’s success doesn’t make you less successful.” – Brianna Wiest
13. “An untamed mind is a minefield.” – Brianna Wiest
14. “It’s always yourself you find at the end of the journey.” – Brianna Wiest
15. “Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can.” – Brianna Wiest
16. “You change your life when you start doing the truly scary thing, which is showing up exactly as you are.” – Brianna Wiest
17. “You are going to have to decide that you love yourself too much to stop settling for less than what you really deserve. If you think that you could be doing better in life, you might be right. If you think that there is more that you are here to accomplish, you might be right. If you think that you are not being your authentic self, you might be right.” – Brianna Wiest
18. “The real glow up isn’t proving the people from your past wrong. It is finally feeling so content and hopeful about your future that you stop thinking about them entirely.” – Brianna Wiest
19. “you are not in the world; the world is in you.” – Brianna Wiest
20. “lack of routine is just a breeding ground for perpetual procrastination.” – Brianna Wiest
21. “Happiness, if you think about it, is the biggest conundrum we face. The pursuit of it is why we do basically everything that we do, and yet, none of that effort is necessary: it’s the simplest choice of changing our state of mind.” – Brianna Wiest
22. “Happy people know suffering more than anyone else, and that’s how they can see just how damn beautiful their lives are. It’s because they’ve seen the depths.” – Brianna Wiest
23. “You think your past defines you, and worse, you think that it is an unchangeable reality, when really, your perception of it changes as you do.” – Brianna Wiest
24. “The ways in which your current situation – though perhaps unplanned or unwanted – could be the path to the place you’ve actually always wanted to be, if only you’d begin to think of it that way.” – Brianna Wiest
25. “A quick cheat sheet for you: The heart will tell you what; the mind will tell you how. Let them stay in their corners of expertise.” – Brianna Wiest
26. “The things you love about others are the things you love about yourself. The things you hate about others are the things you cannot see in yourself.” – Brianna Wiest
27. “In fact, crying at appropriate times is one of the biggest signs of mental strength, as people who are struggling often find it difficult to release their feelings and be vulnerable.” – Brianna Wiest
28. “Life did not get easier; you got smarter.” – Brianna Wiest
29. “Take a nap. Seriously, wrap yourself in a balnket and go to sleep for 20 minutes. It’s like hitting the “refresh” button on your brain.” – Brianna Wiest
30. “Everything is hard; it’s just a matter of what you think is worth the effort.” – Brianna Wiest
31. “The obstacle is the way.” – Brianna Wiest
32. “Usually when we have a problem that is circumstantial, we are facing the reality of life. When we have a problem that is chronic, we are facing the reality of ourselves.” – Brianna Wiest
33. “Stop judging other people. See everyone with dignity, with a story, with reasons for why they are how they are and why they do what they do. The more you accept other people, the more you’ll accept yourself, and vice versa.” – Brianna Wiest
34. “Happiness is not how many things you do, but how well you do them. More is not better. Happiness is not experiencing something else; it’s continually experiencing what you already have in new and different ways.” – Brianna Wiest
35. “Your body is a vessel for your experience, and you will be trapped until you realize that what the vessel looks like is not as important as what it can do.” – Brianna Wiest
36. “Because if everything were explained, there would be nothing left to figure out.” – Brianna Wiest
37. “How you judge other people. What you first reach to insult someone with — especially when it’s physical — says infinitely more of you than them.” – Brianna Wiest
38. “When you’ve lost sight of the magic of the little things, it’s not because the magic has gone elsewhere, only that you’ve chosen to disregard it in favor of something else.” – Brianna Wiest
39. “It is very hard to show up as the person you want to be when you are surrounded by an environment that makes you feel like a person you aren’t.” – Brianna Wiest
40. “The universe whispers until it screams, and happy people listen while the call is still quiet” – Brianna Wiest
41. “grief is a faster teacher than joy” – Brianna Wiest
42. “Your old self is no longer suited to manage the life you have today, and so they must transform into who you are becoming now.” – Brianna Wiest
43. “Nobody’s life is as good as it looks online.” – Brianna Wiest
44. “Be mindful of who you surround yourself with. Your most constant company will account for a lot of how you turn out over the coming years. Pay attention.” – Brianna Wiest
45. “Defensiveness is born of fear; assertiveness is born of confidence.” – Brianna Wiest
46. “It’s doing, not thinking about doing, that creates a life well lived. If you want your life to be different, do differently.” – Brianna Wiest
47. “You are not too broken to find someone who actually wants you, and when you begin to recognize that you are worthy of being committed to, you’ll start choosing partners who do just that.” – Brianna Wiest
48. “Don’t worry about doing it well; just do it.” – Brianna Wiest
49. “Loving yourself is letting yourself be loved, too.” – Brianna Wiest
50. “The greatest act of self-love is to no longer accept a life you are unhappy with.” – Brianna Wiest
51. “Accomplishing goals is not success. How much you expand in the process is.” – Brianna Wiest
52. “don’t confuse a bad feeling for a bad life.” – Brianna Wiest
53. “Emotions are temporary, but behaviors are permanent. You are always responsible for how you choose to act.” – Brianna Wiest
54. “Lots and lots of red will never make blue. Pleasures will never make you whole.” – Brianna Wiest
55. “What you focus on expands.” – Brianna Wiest
56. “The key to finding happiness in this life is realizing that the only way to overcome is to transcend; to find happiness in the simple pleasures, to master the art of just being.” – Brianna Wiest
57. “You have to remember that your feelings, while valid, are not often real. They are not always accurate reflections of reality. They are, however, always accurate reflections of our thoughts.” – Brianna Wiest
58. “The point was never that you adjusted everything around you until it was made perfect, but that you adjusted the way you see everything until you realize that it is enough, and it always has been.” – Brianna Wiest
59. “Your habits create your mood, and your mood is a filter through which you experience your life.” – Brianna Wiest
60. “You’re one of those people who tries to find comfort in overanalyzing old things to make more sense of them, when in reality, complexity is a product of insecurity, and insecurity a product of being unable to accept the simple reality of the situation” – Brianna Wiest
61. “Make time for the friends you have more than you seek out the ones you don’t. Stop counting how many people are in your life as though hitting a certain tally will make you feel loved. Start appreciating how rare and beautiful it is to even just have one close friend in life. Not everybody is so lucky.” – Brianna Wiest
62. “Listening to the silence immediately creates stillness inside you. Only the stillness in you can perceive the silence outside” – Brianna Wiest
63. “Whenever you feel hopeless, all you need to do is go outside and realize that you have been molded into human form for some reason. You are somewhere you may never be again. Your actions, no matter how inconsequential you think they may be, have been essential.” – Brianna Wiest
64. “Hold yourself to your standard.” – Brianna Wiest
65. “What qualities you admire most in other people. (This is what you most like about yourself.)” – Brianna Wiest
66. “It’s a great privilege to not know where you’ll end up, just where you’re headed. It’s the only way to get there.” – Brianna Wiest
67. “To fully accept your life – the highs, lows, good, bad – is to be grateful for all of it, and to know that the “good” teaches you well, but the “bad” teaches you better.” – Brianna Wiest
68. “Everything you lose becomes something you are profoundly grateful for. With time, you see that it was not the path. It was what was standing in your way.” – Brianna Wiest
69. “You will never be ready for the things that matter, and waiting to feel ready before you start.” – Brianna Wiest
70. “The problem is not the problem. The problem is how you think about the problem.” – Brianna Wiest
71. “If we could see souls instead of bodies, what would be beautiful? – Brianna Wiest
72. “Either way, mental strength is not just hoping that nothing ever goes wrong. It is believing that we have the capacity to handle it if it does.” – Brianna Wiest
73. “The point of healing is not to return to a place where everything is perfect. Instead, it is to begin to develop the ability to respond to what’s imperfect.” – Brianna Wiest
74. “You will be grateful things didn’t turn out the way you wanted. You will be grateful for what you struggle with once you get to the other side.” – Brianna Wiest
75. “Self-sabotage is what happens when we refuse to consciously meet our innermost needs, often because we do not believe we are capable of handling them.” – Brianna Wiest
76. “It’s not about getting over things, it’s about making room for them. It’s about painting the picture with contrast.” – Brianna Wiest
77. “Nobody wants to believe happiness is a choice, because that puts responsibility in their hands.” – Brianna Wiest
78. “Love someone because their soul inspires you, not because you’re interested in the relief from loneliness and companionship they can provide. Anybody can do that. Not just anybody can show you to yourself.” – Brianna Wiest
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80. “As children, routine gives us a feeling of safety. As adults, it gives us a feeling of purpose.” – Brianna Wiest
81. “Nobody cries at a funeral because the world will be missing out on another pretty face. They cry because the world is missing another heart, another soul, another person. Don’t wait until it’s too late to focus on what will actually matter: creating something that lasts far beyond your body.” – Brianna Wiest
82. “The love you really want is your own. What you’re seeking in someone else is what you aren’t giving to yourself. What angers you is what you aren’t accepting and healing; what gives you joy and hope is what you already have within you.” – Brianna Wiest
83. “Nobody is thinking about you the way you are thinking about you. They’re all thinking about themselves.” – Brianna Wiest
84. “Stop thinking that being sad or broken makes you unlovable or “bad.” Your honest moments don’t destroy relationships, they bond (as long as you’re being genuine).” – Brianna Wiest
85. “The way to change your life is to change the way you think, and the way to change the way you think is to change what you read.” – Brianna Wiest
86. “It’s not whether you “feel” like putting in the work, but whether or not you do it regardless.” – Brianna Wiest
87. “Find meaning and joy in the work you do, not the work you wish you did. Finding fulfillment in work is never about pursuing your idea of what your “purpose” is. It is always about infusing purpose into whatever it is you already do.” – Brianna Wiest
88. “The worst happened, and then it passed. You lost the person you thought you couldn’t live without and then you kept living. You lost your job then found another one. You began to realize that “safety” isn’t in certainty — but in faith that you can simply keep going.” – Brianna Wiest
89. “waiting to feel ready before you start acting is how the knowing-doing gap widens.” – Brianna Wiest
90. “Other people are not here to love us perfectly; they are here to teach us lessons to show us how to love them – and ourselves – better.” – Brianna Wiest
91. “Everything you do, see, and feel is a reflection of not who you are, but how you are. You create what you believe. You see what you want. You’ll have what you give.” – Brianna Wiest
92. “Something could happen at any moment, and if you are not absolutely awake, absolutely still, you will miss it.” – Brianna Wiest
93. “The main thing socially intelligent people understand is that your relationship to everyone else is an extension of your relationship to yourself.” – Brianna Wiest